Toshiba 80G a noise maker?

[thinkweird]

My Toshiba 80G makes a lot of noise that even outbeats the fan noise.

One option for me is to ask for a replace of the hard drive of another brand.

My questions are:

does your Toshiba 80G make a lot of noise?
what hard drive for thinkpad t43 is quiet?

[3to4]

does your Toshiba 80G make a lot of noise?

I have had two MK8026GAX. I have used them in my X32 and T42. (Now I have put bigger hard drives.) They were very quiet. I mean I did not notice any noise. Maybe, your drive is simply starting to fail?

[Paxonator]

I have a 60gb 4200rpm toshiba hard drive and when it's working you can just hear it grind. Sometimes it makes me think the head is going to snap off lol.